Bill Text: FL S1412 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Graduate Medical Education Program Performance Data

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2024-03-08 - Died in Health Policy [S1412 Detail]

Download: Florida-2024-S1412-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2024                                    SB 1412
       
       
        
       By Senator Davis
       
       
       
       
       
       5-01450-24                                            20241412__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to graduate medical education program
    3         performance data; amending s. 409.909, F.S.; requiring
    4         the Agency for Health Care Administration, by a
    5         specified date, to develop and implement a methodology
    6         for collecting performance data from graduate medical
    7         education programs seeking or receiving public funding
    8         under the Statewide Medicaid Residency Program;
    9         specifying minimum requirements for the performance
   10         data; requiring the agency to establish certain
   11         minimum performance measurements for graduate medical
   12         programs receiving funding under the program;
   13         providing that, beginning on a specified date, such
   14         performance measurements are a condition for receiving
   15         funding under the program; providing an effective
   16         date.
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   18  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   20         Section 1. Present subsections (7) and (8) of section
   21  409.909, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (8)
   22  and (9), respectively, and a new subsection (7) is added to that
   23  section, to read:
   24         409.909 Statewide Medicaid Residency Program.—
   25         (7) By October 1, 2024, the agency shall develop and
   26  implement a methodology for collecting performance data from
   27  graduate medical education programs seeking or receiving funding
   28  under this section. At a minimum, the performance data collected
   29  must include measurable efforts by a graduate medical education
   30  program to increase the availability of residents to serve rural
   31  and underserved communities in this state. Based on the data
   32  collected pursuant to this subsection, the agency shall
   33  establish minimum performance measurements that, beginning July
   34  1, 2025, must be met by graduate medical education programs as a
   35  condition to receive funding under this section.
   36         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.